Nicaragua's government has expelled over 30 nuns from three convents in its latest assault on detractors, and their whereabouts are unknown, a researcher and

The new Constitution tailored by the presidential couple legitimizes the ‘volunteer police’ and gives the Sandinista flag equal status with the national one

He was a popular TV journalist when elected as El Salvador’s first modern-day leftist leader in 2009, but he went into exile hounded by corruption charges.

At a swearing-in ceremony on Friday in the small northern city of Ocotal, national police chief Francisco Diaz described the new force as one that will support existing police officers, and is voluntarily formed by civilians who will "defend peace and security."

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Thursday condemned Nicaragua for allowing President Daniel Ortega's re-election in 2011, despite a constitutional ban due to term limits.

Ten of the country’s 15 regions lack any type of journalists, who have been expelled, persecuted, or detained by the Ortega and Murillo regime

President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko has received congratulations from Nicaragua’s President Jose Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Vice

With Donald Trump threatening to “take back” the Panama Canal from China, Nicaragua has changed its constitution to let the regime of Daniel Ortega grant a concession to a company or consortium to build an interoceanic canal,

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday. He was 65. Nicaragua’s Health Ministry said in a statement that Funes had died of a serious chronic illness.

The Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez Lagos of Matagalpa said his “main pastoral priority” was closeness to his priests, in his first public interview since

Mauricio Funes, former El Salvador President, died in Nicaragua at 65. Having governed El Salvador from 2009-2014, he spent his later years in Nicaragua to avoid corruption charges back home. Granted citizenship by Daniel Ortega,

raising concerns from human rights groups that President Daniel Ortega's government is formalizing a paramilitary force. Opposition figures and human rights groups have raised concerns that the ...